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United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Authorizes the crediting of past employment under service contracts by persons subject to the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide for cost-of-living adjustments to disability compensation rates payable to veterans residing outside the contiguous United States. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 362)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Removes the requirement of service on or after the effective date of the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 as a prerequisite for creditable service for civil service retirement purposes for National Guard technicians. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8332(b))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide memorial plots in national cemeteries for former members of the Armed Forces whose remains are determined to be nonrecoverable. Permits the adjacent burial of the surviving spouse, minor child, and unmarried adult child at the discretion of the Secretary of such former members.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Provides procedures for redressing grievances of members of the Armed Forces. Prohibits and makes punishable by confinement the following acts when committed by a member of the Armed Forces: the maintenance of unsafe and unsanitary military penal facilities; brutal treatment or cruel and unusal punishment of a prisoner in a military penal facility; brutal treatment of another member of the Armed Forces under color of duty; and denial of constitutional rights to another member of the Armed Forces. Creates a United States Military Justice Commission, to be composed of 11 Presidential appointees and headed by a Chairman, who will be responsible for all administrative operations of the Commission. Establishes the position of Commission General Counsel, who will have final authority with respect to the investigation of complaints. Gives the Commission jurisdiction to determine complaints concerning the offenses listed above, and to adjudge punishment for the violation. Gives the commission the discretion to initiate investigations to determine whether violations have occurred. Prescribes the procedure for filing complaints, for the Commission's action on a complaint, and pretrial and trial procedure. Grants the Commission exclusive jurisdiction over the violations listed above, except for the authority of the United States civil courts to grant writs of habeas corpus. Provides for an annual review and study of the operation of these provisions. Establishes a United States Court of Military Grievances, to consist of 3 judges appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the Court will review the record in cases where a Commission sentence affects a general or flag officer; cases decided by the Commission and sent to the Court for review; and cases decided by the Commission on which the Court grants review. Permits the Court to order a rehearing or dismiss the charges.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Requires that each admission to the military service academies shall be made without regard to a candidate's sex, race, color, or religious beliefs.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Revises the schedule for deductible payments by patients for medical care and special education services under the health benefits program for spouses and children of members of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Provides that no public funds be used for the purpose of transporting chemical nerve agents to or from any military installation in the United States for storage or stockpiling purposes unless it is the sense of the Congress to do so.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Establishes the office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity to eliminate discrimination in the armed forces, including civilian personnel and personnel under defense contractors.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Extends commissary and exchange privileges to disabled veterans with a 50 percent or more service-connected disability, and to the widows of veterans who died from a service-connected disability rated as permanently and totally disabling. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 4261(j), (k); 9261(j), (k); 7603(b), (c))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Authorizes naturalization for alien servicemen who have to leave the U.S. Armed Forces within three years after enlistment because of any disability.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Requires the Secretary of Defense to convey specified lands to Nome, Alaska, upon payment of $1 by the city of Nome.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Naval Petroleum Reserves Defense Production Authorization Act - Sets forth the findings of Congress, and the purposes of this resolution. Authorizes the production of petroleum from Navel Petroleum Reserve Number 1 if needed in order to insure that the needs of national defense are met. Requires that such reserve shall be developed and produced at its maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. Establishes, in the Department of the Treasury, a National Petroleum Reserve Account. States that during the authorized period of increased production there shall be transferred or credited to such account: (1) any or all proceeds realized from the disposition of the United States share or petroleum or refined products, oil and gas products produced, including royalty products, and the net proceeds, if any, realized from exchanges within the Department of Defense or refined products accruing to the benefit of any of the military departments of the Department of Defense as the result of such exchanges; and (2) such funds as may be appropriated by the Congress for the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account, to remain available until expended. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct programs of exploration for oil and gas on Naval Petroleum Reserves Numbered 1 and 4 in order to determine the extent of oil and gas resources therein. Requires the Secretary to make annual reports to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives regarding the progress, results, and findings of these exploration programs, and to include in such reports such recommendations as he deems appropriate regarding development, production, and sale, exchange, transportation, or storage of oil and/or natural gas found to exist on the naval petroleum reserves. Authorizes specific appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Establishes in the Senate the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities to conduct an investigation of the extent, if any, to which illegal, improper, or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency or by any persons, acting either individually or in combination with others, in carrying out any intelligence or surveillance activities by or on behalf of any agency of the Federal Government. Authorizes the select committee to make a study of the activities of any agency or persons or groups which have any tendency to reveal the full facts with respect to specified matters, including the following: (1) whether the Central Intelligence Agency has conducted an illegal domestic intelligence operation in the United States; (2) the conduct of domestic intelligence or counterintelligence operations against United States citizens by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any other Federal agency; and (3) the origin and disposition of the so-called Huston Plan to apply United States intelligence agency capabilities against individuals or organizations within the United States. Sets forth the powers of the committee. Directs the committee to make a final report of the results of the study, together with its findings and recommendations as a new congressional legislation, to the Senate at the earliest practicable date, but no later than September 1, 1975. Stipulates that the expenses of the committee through September 1, 1975, shall not exceed $750,000.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Provides that time spent by American civilians in enemy prisoner-of-war camps and similar places on or after December 7, 1941, shall be creditable (as though it were military service) toward pensions, annuities, or similar benefits under the Social Security Act, the Railroad Act and other specified Federal retirement programs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Requires the Armed Forces to provide special educational and health services to dependents of members serving on active duty who are deaf, hard of hearing, handicapped by a speech impairment or visual impairment, seriously emotionally distrubed, moderately or severely mentally retarded, crippled, or have a health impairment or specific learning disability requiring special education and related services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079(d))
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Sets forth the powers of such corporation. Provides that the corporation, and its officers and directors shall not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or candidate for elective public office.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Authorizes the partial attachment of retired or retainer pay to satisfy judicially decreed child support contributions of members of the armed forces. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1407)
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Authorizes increased production of petroleum from the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve at a rate to help insure that the needs of national defense are met, but not to exceed the maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of the production herein authorized by means of sales effected by competitives bid. Provides that full and equal opportunity for acquisition of the oil shall be accorded to all interested companies, including major and independent oil refineries alike. Establishes the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. States that funds in the Account shall be available for the expenses of : (1) production, as authorized by this resolution and as may hereafter be authorized; (2) all capital costs necessary for facilities both within and outside the reserve incident to production and delivery of crude petroleum; and (3) exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and shale oil reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Authorizes increased production of petroleum from the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve at a rate to help insure that the needs of national defense are met, but not to exceed the maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of the production herein authorized by means of sales effected by competitives bid. Provides that full and equal opportunity for acquisition of the oil shall be accorded to all interested companies, including major and independent oil refineries alike. Establishes the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. States that funds in the Account shall be available for the expenses of : (1) production, as authorized by this resolution and as may hereafter be authorized; (2) all capital costs necessary for facilities both within and outside the reserve incident to production and delivery of crude petroleum; and (3) exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and shale oil reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States that the Government of the United States shall cease forthwith all consideration of aid, trade, diplomatic recognition, or any other form of communication, travel, or accommodation with the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam or the Provisional Revolutionary Government (Viet Cong) unitl such time as the agreements relating to facilitating the location and care of graves of the dead, exhumation and repatriation of the remains are complied with to the fullest extent.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the contingent of United States troops stationed in Europe be substantially reduced and that such reductions be accomplished in stages over the next one and one-half years.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that new efforts should be made by the Government of the United States through appropriate diplomatic and international channels to persuade the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with their obligations with respect to personnel captured or killed during the Vietnam conflict and with respect to personnel still in a missing status. States that the Congress declares its support and sympathy for the families and loved ones of the Americans missing in action, who have suffered such deep human anguish for so long due to the undisclosed fate of the missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Establishes a congressional joint select committee to conduct an investigation of the extent, if any, to which illegal, improper, or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency or by any persons in carrying out any intelligence or surveillance activities by or on behalf of any agency of the Federal Government. Directs the committee to investigate the activities of any kind which have any tendency to reveal the full facts with respect to specified matters or questions, including: (1) whether the Central Intelligence Agency has conducted an illegal domestic intelligence operation in the United States; (2) the conduct by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of a program of counter-intelligence against United States citizens, and (3) the organization and disposition of the so-called Huston Plan to apply United States intelligence agency capabilities against individuals or organizations within the United States. Sets forth the powers of the committee. Requires the committee to report to the Congress as soon as practicable the results of its investigation and study, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. Limits the expenses of the committee to $750,000, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for the procurement of the services of individual consultants or organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Revises the National Security Act to prohibit domestic intelligence activities by the Central Intelligence Agency, directly or indirectly or in cooperation with other agencies. Prohibits the Central Intelligence Agency from participating in any illegal activity within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Establishes a select committee of the Senate to be known as the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. States that it shall be the function of the select committee to conduct an investigation of all matters relating to: (1) the operations of the United States Government with respect to domestic and foreign intelligence activities; and (2) the past effect and future role of such activities of agencies of the United States Government within the United States and overseas. Sets forth the powers of the Committee. Requires the committee to make a final report to the Senate on its findings and recommendations within two years. Stipulates that the expenses of the special committee shall not exceed $500,000 from the date this resolution is agreed to through February 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides an alternative method for computing dependency and indemnity compensation in order to insure that the survivors of deceased veterans receive an amount of compensation equal to that which they would have been civil service employees killed while performing job-related functions.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Removes the requirement of service on or after the effective date of the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 as a prerequisite for creditable service for civil service retirement purposes for National Guard technicians. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8332(b))
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Respects the dual pay restriction provisions of Federal law pertaining to the retired or retirement pay of retired officers of regular components of the uniformed services who are employed in civilian offices or positions in the Government of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay dependency and indemnity compensation to a veterans widow, children, and parents when a veteran dies after December 31, 1956 from a service-connected or compensable disability rated totally disabled by reason of service-connected disability for 20 or more years.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to make retroactive payments to members of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard (or their survivors) who were held captive by Japan during World War II. Provides that such payments shall be in an amount equal to the difference between what an individual actually received while in prisoner of war status, and what he would have been entitled to if a promotion after repatriation had been in effect on the date of his captivity.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation shall not have the amount of such pensions or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits which result from the enactment of Public Law 93-233 or any subsequent cost-of-living increase under Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disabiltiy Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for other pension benefits. Defines World War I as meaning the period beginning on April 5, 1917, and ending on July 2, 1921. Provides for a schedule of pension payments under this Act. Provides that if the veteran is married and living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse, or has a child or children, the monthly rate of pension under this Act shall be $150. Provides that if the veteran is unmarried (or married but not living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse) and has no child, the monthly rate of pension shall be $135. Provides that if the veteran has a disability by reason of which he is permanently housebound, the monthly rate hereunder shall be increased by $50. Provides that veterans in need of regular aid and attendance shall have their monthly rates increased by $125. Directs the Administrator to pay to widows of veterans, receiving benefits under this Act at time of death, pension benefits as prescribed in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
World War I Pension Act - Authorizes the payment of a pension at a monthly rate of $150 to veterans of World War I. Defines the period of service for which such veterans must have served for eligibility under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for other pension benefits. Defines World War I as meaning the period beginning on April 5, 1917, and ending on July 2, 1921. Provides for a schedule of pension payments under this Act. Provides that if the veteran is married and living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse, or has a child or children, the monthly rate of pension under this Act shall be $150. Provides that if the veteran is unmarried (or married but not living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse) and has no child, the monthly rate of pension shall be $135. Provides that if the veteran has a disability by reason of which he is permanently housebound, the monthly rate hereunder shall be increased by $50. Provides that veterans in need of regular aid and attendance shall have their monthly rates increased by $125. Directs the Administrator to pay to widows of veterans, receiving benefits under this Act at time of death, pension benefits as prescribed in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides that for the purposes of medical and dental care, the male dependents of female armed services personnel shall enjoy the same eligibility as presently enjoyed by the female dependents of male Armed Forces personnel. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1072)
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides that in the determination of the annual income of recipients of veterans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation, the Administrator of veterans' Affairs shall not reduce the amount of such pension or compensation because of increases in monthly social security benefits under Public Law 92-336. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations for calendar years after 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes medical benefits for the widow or child of any veteran who at the time of death was suffering from a total and permanent service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Increases by two thousand the number of nursing care beds required to be operated by the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide hospital care and medical service abroad to an alien, who was never an American citizen, for any service-connected disability incurred while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Establishes the annual pay scale for specified personnel of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration, including the Chief Medical Director, at $49,700. States that in order to attract or retain highly qualified physicians, dentists, and nurses in the Department, such persons may be paid an additional 25 percent of their annual salary. Authorizes the granting of leave with pay for pursuit of studies to such individuals under enumerated circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish necessary hospital care and medical services for veterans in need of such care while sojourning or residing abroad.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Exempts contract nursing home care provided by the Veterans' Administration from the requirements of the Service Contract Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes outpatient care, or care on an ambulatory basis, by the Veterans' Administration for all disabilities of veterans suffering from service-connected disability rated at 50 percent or more. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 612)
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to purchase from one or more life insurance companies a policy or policies of mortgage protection life insurance on a group basis for veterans unable to obtain commercial life insurance at a substandard rate because of a service-connected disability. Sets forth the maximum amount of insurance under a policy provided under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to deduct insurance premiums from any compensation or other cash benefits payable to veterans by the Veterans' Administration, and to pay such premiums to the insurers. Provides that the United States shall bear all of the cost of the insurance provided under this Act, except the amount of premium rates. States that any amount of insurance in force under this Act on the date of death of an insured veteran shall be paid only to the holder of the mortgage loan on the veteran's home as a credit toward loan indebtedness. Requires each policy purchased under this Act to provide for the following: (1) reinsurance with other insurers which meet the Administrator's criteria; (2) that the Administrator may discontinue a whole policy, or exclude from coverage loans made after a date fixed by him; (3) issuance to each insured veteran of a certificate setting forth the benefits to which he is entitled; (4) any other provisions necessary to carry out this Act; and (5) an annual accounting to the Administrator of the amount of premiums paid, the total of all mortality and other claim charges incurred, and the amount of the insurer's expenses and risk charges. States that insurance under this Act shall terminate upon whichever of the following events first occurs: (1) satisfaction of the veteran's indebtedness under the loan upon which the insurance is based; (2) the veteran's 70th birthday; (3) termination of the veteran's ownership of the property securing the loan; (4) discontinuance of payment of premiums by the veteran; or (5) discontinuance of the entire contract or agreement. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 791-95)